At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City